<TITLE>04. Par 29-38</TITLE>L-29   And God is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And It's still God, that's right, is the Word. And when we get away from the Word, then we're away from God. Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me..." There's their mystery. There's the secret. "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, then ask what you will." See? The Idea is first. God's Word has got to abide here.

L-30 You can't take creeds and isms, and so forth, and hammer them into you, and take some dogmas and mixing it with the Word of God, and then have God to honor it. It's got to be absolutely, purely, unadulterated, the Word of God, and that's all. That's all. God won't mix with anything perverted. He's absolutely God, throughout.

L-31   Now, always, in all times, we've had these things, of people who--who tried to pervert the Word of God, and to take other kind of systems. And--and they find, after a long time, they find just like we see today, this 1963, find the world falling apart. Certainly does. Because, it cannot hold, no more than what Daniel said in--in his vision, the interpret of the kings, that, no more than iron and clay will mix together, neither does the Word of God mix with anything else. It just won't do it. It's got to be the Word. That's all.

L-32   Now we find out that politics, in the days of--of the world that Noah lived in, had taken over. And the educational program and the great business world of that day had--had glamoured itself into a place to where the--the building of the buildings, of the pyramids and the sphinxes, and something that we could not nowise build today.

L-33 If anybody's ever been in Egypt, and seen the--the pyramids and so forth, we haven't got nothing now that could ever build one like it. No. But they were farther advanced than we are, in education. They were farther advanced in science.

L-34 And then they've come to find out, the world begin to fall apart. And God sent them a message, but they refused it. And it was a simple, very simple message, by a very simple farmer, but they refused it and rejected it. And their world fell apart. Exactly.

L-35 Same thing taken place in Sodom, the time of Sodom, when immorality was on the--the move. And they built cities, and so forth. But, come to find out, God sent His system in there, then they refused it, and it fell apart. Always does.

L-36 Now, the same thing exists today. We're just in the same day as it was. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the Coming of the Son of man," the whole thing crumbling and falling apart. The... It's built upon sand, and it's got to wash down. And we find that great time like it was then, so it--it exists today.

L-37   And in the time of the coming of our Lord Jesus, in the early days of--of when He was born, we find that world, in that day, falling apart, when He was born into the world. We find out that the religious world... As I want to speak on, tonight, on the crucifixion, around something on that order. They... We find that the Jews had just so polluted the system that God had give them, in His Word, until there was no sincerity no more, their--their--their sacrifices, though they carried it out, letterly. And they made their sacrifices. When the Jew...

L-38   Nothing any sweeter than God accepting a substitute. When, man had sinned, and God accepted the substitute. Full of grace, He was, to do such a thing. When the Jew come down the road, with his bullock or his lamb, to go offer it for a sacrifice, and he did it from the bottom of his heart, was a great thing. But, after while, it become a family tradition. They just went down and offered the bullock, and, "Well, it's getting time for the sacrifice, so we'll just go and offer this certain bullock."


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